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Airport Belo Horizonte (Brazil) - Pampulha Domestic

Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport
Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade
IATA: PLU ICAO: SBBH
Summary
Airport type Public/Military
Operator Infraero
Serves Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Location Pampulha
Elevation AMSL 2,589 ft / 789 m
Coordinates 19°5104S 043°5702W / -19.85111, -43.95056
Website www.infraero.gov.br
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 2,505 8,220 Asphalt
Sources: Infraero,[1] DAFIF[2][3]

Belo Horizonte Airport[1] (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH), also known as Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport,[2][4] is an airport located in the Pampulha region, eight kilometers from the city center of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has 186 daily scheduled flights connecting Belo Horizonte to the rest of the country and smaller cities in the states interior.[1]

On November 16, 2004, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially changed the airport's name to Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in homage to Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, born in Itabira, a city of the state of Minas Gerais.

In April 2005, the state's government has decided to move most of its traffic to Tancredo Neves International Airport (Confins), because Pampulha couldn't support the amount of traffic it was handling.

In 2007, the airport handled 759,824 passengers and 52,812 aircraft movements[5].

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References

  1. ^ a b c Belo Horizonte Airport, official site
  2. ^ a b Airport information for SBBH at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.
  3. ^ Airport information for PLU at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF.
  4. ^ (Portuguese) Guia de Aeródromos Brasileiros
  5. ^ Infraero airport statistics for 2007 http://www.infraero.gov.br/upload/arquivos/movi/mov.operac.1207.pdf

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